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Originally Posted by clive milne
... and of course, zinc dust and sulphur - the rockets containing that stuff used to leave the ground at a rate completely in defiance of any rational interpretation of laws of physics. Perceptually, it was like seeing a pillar of smoke suddenly appear in the sky, with a shiny metal object leaving your peripheral vision never to be seen again.
Watch this to get an idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT4RoRg9TCk |
Burn rate on that stuff is 2m\sec, basically a long explosion in a tube. Any cavities or packdowns in the fuel load and you have a 'krushnik' explosion.